| Honorific-Prefix: | Yang Berhormat Datuk Seri Panglima |
| Bung Moktar Bin Radin | |
| Birth Name: | Bung Moktar bin Radin |
| Native Name: | Malay: {{Script|Arab|بوڠ مختار رضين |
| Birth Date: | 14 September 1958 |
| Birth Place: | Kampung Bilit, Sukau, Kinabatangan, Sandakan, Crown Colony of North Borneo (now Sabah, Malaysia) |
| Office4: | Ministerial roles (Sabah) |
| Subterm4: | 2020–2023 |
| Suboffice4: | Deputy Chief Minister |
| Subterm5: | 2020–2023 |
| Suboffice5: | Minister of Works |
| Office8: | Faction represented in Dewan Rakyat |
| Subterm8: | 1999– |
| Suboffice8: | Barisan Nasional |
| Office10: | Faction represented in Sabah State Legislative Assembly |
| Subterm10: | 2020– |
| Suboffice10: | Barisan Nasional |
| Office12: | Other roles |
| Subterm12: | 2013–2018 |
| Suboffice12: | Chairman of FELCRA |
| Citizenship: | Malaysian |
| Occupation: | Politician, lawyer |
| Spouse: | Datin Seri Panglima Nor Asidah Alimudin Datin Sri Zizie Ezette (m. 2009) |
Datuk Seri Panglima Bung Moktar bin Radin (born 14 September 1958) is a Malaysian politician and lawyer who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kinabatangan since November 1999 and Member of the Sabah State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Lamag since September 2020. He served as the Deputy Chief Minister I, State Minister of Works of Sabah from September 2020 to January 2023, Chairman of FELCRA Berhad from 2013 to 2018 and Deputy Chairman of the Barisan Nasional Backbenchers Club (BNBBC) from 2008 to 2018. He is a member and Division Chief of Kinabatangan of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a component party of the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition. He has also served as the State Chairman of BN and UMNO of Sabah since December 2018.[1] He is a former member of United Sabah National Organisation (USNO).
Before becoming a Member of Parliament, he served with the Sandakan Special Affairs Department (JASA) branch office (1987-1990) as an administrative and diplomatic officer, officer for the Majlis Amanah Rakyat (MARA), Sandakan branch office (1990-1992) and Political Secretary to the Sabah Minister of Finance (1994-1999).
The first time was as Barisan Nasional (BN) candidate in the 1994 Sabah state election for the Kuamut seat, an opposition stronghold at that time, Bung Mokhtar lost. He first won the 1999 general election after defeating Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) candidate Ali Latip Taha for the Kinabatangan parliamentary seat. He managed to retain the seat in 2004, 2008, 2013 and 2018 general elections. Since joining politics in 1978, he has been a representative of USNO or UMNO of BN candidates five times for Kinabatangan parliamentary seats.
Over five terms in Parliament, Bung Moktar has earned a reputation for controversial remarks and inflammatory behaviour.[2]
His most recent incident came on 7 August 2018, when he caused a stir with Willie Mongin (MP for) in the Dewan Rakyat as the latter alleged that the Bung Moktar Radin had visited a casino, and he pointed his finger at Willie and accused him of being rude, demanding the statement be retracted.
After the incident, the Speaker of Dewan Rakyat warned the members to behave or they will be disciplined.[3]
The incident became an internet meme focusing on the combination of Malay and Bung Moktar's broken English.[4] His outburst in Malay was edited together with an insert from a different video of Malaysian former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin saying "Can you speak English?", followed by Bung Moktar's continuation in English with the remark "Fuck you!". The meme ended with the grammatically incorrect caption "he do speak english" accompanied with a cut piece of the song "Sanctuary Guardian - Earthbound" which is common in this format.[5]
He and Jasin MP Mohammad Said bin Yusof stirred controversy for making sexist comments and obscene comments to DAP's Batu Gajah MP, Fong Po Kuan in during a parliamentary session in 2007. He followed Mohammad Said by saying that Fong "leaked" every month (referring to the menstruation cycle in women), while they were debating about the leaks in the parliament building.
The pair offered an apology for their statements but were rejected by Fong because they were considered insincere.[6]
In the first sitting of Parliament after the 2008 elections, he called opposition politician Karpal Singh a "big monkey" after Singh called him the "Bigfoot from Kinabatangan."[7]
On 20 April 2010, Bung pleaded guilty to committing polygamy by taking a second wife without the consent of a marriage registrar.[8] He was sentenced to a month's imprisonment, but was ultimately released on bail.[9] [10]
On 3 December 2011, during the UMNO General Assembly 2011, he again urged Shahrizat Abdul Jalil to resign over a controversy surrounding the National Feedlot Centre (NFC) in Gemas, with an easy loan of RM250 million linked to her husband and her children.[11] It was revealed that the NFC suffered losses but managed to purchase two luxury condominiums in Bangsar, as well as buying a Mercedes car worth RM534,622 and two parcels of land worth RM3,363,507 in Putrajaya. Deputy Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar claimed that there was no element of breach of trust or fraud in the use of funds for NFC.[12]
He made international news for tweeting "Long Live Hitler" after Germany's 7–1 win over Brazil in the semi-final of the 2014 FIFA World Cup.[13] His tweet stirred controversy with the German ambassador even calling it as "unacceptable."[14]
On 3 May 2019, Bung Moktar was charged by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) with three counts of corruption amounting to total of RM2.8 million in June 2015 when he was director of FELCRA Berhad.[15] His wife, Zizie Ezette was also charged with abetting her husband in the offences.[16]
The Leader of UMNO Sabah, a component party of BN, Bung Moktar Radin, Kinabatangan Member of Parliament (MP) and Lamag Assemblyman, cited a lack of confidence in the leadership of Chief Minister of Sabah Hajiji Noor in the withdrawal resulted to 2023 Sabah political crisis.[17] This crisis later ended with approval of Anti-Switching Parties Law in Sabah State Legislative Assembly on 25 May 2023.[18] The Bung Moktar withdrawal movement known widely as Langkah Kinabalu or Kinabalu move and recorded as the most controversial political Coup d'état move in 2023.
| Constituency | Votes | Pct | Opponent(s) | Votes | Pct | Ballots cast | Majority | Turnout | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | N23 Kuamut, P155 Kinabatangan | Bung Moktar Radin (UMNO) | 1,449 | 37.24% | Joseph Sitin Saang (PBS) | 2,184 | 56.13% | 3,944 | 735 | 72.34% | |||
| Ali Latip Taha (IND) | 258 | 6.63% | |||||||||||
| 2020 | N58 Lamag, P187 Kinabatangan | Bung Moktar Radin (UMNO) | 3,035 | 54.06% | Mohd Ismail Ayob (WARISAN) | 2,374 | 31.40% | 5,614 | 661 | 68.81% | |||
| Junny Abdullah (IND) | 73 | 1.47% | |||||||||||
| Razman Mayah (PCS) | 71 | 3.32% | |||||||||||
| Sairin Abd. Rahman (PPRS) | 61 | 1.47% | |||||||||||
| Year | Constituency | Votes | Pct | Opponent(s) | Votes | Pct | Ballots cast | Majority | Turnout | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | P162 Kinabatangan, Sabah | (UMNO) | 8,141 | 65.72% | Ali Latip Taha (PBS) | 4,246 | 34.28% | 12,597 | 3,895 | 58.84% | ||||
| 2004 | P187 Kinabatangan, Sabah | (UMNO) | ||||||||||||
| 2008 | (UMNO) | 8,507 | 69.71% | Ahmad Abdul (PKR) | 2,181 | 17.87% | 12,792 | 6,326 | 65.53% | |||||
| Dasim Jikah (IND) | 1,515 | 12.41% | ||||||||||||
| 2013 | (UMNO) | 13,377 | 69.29% | Abdullah Abdul Sani (PKR) | 3,646 | 18.89% | 19,960 | 9,731 | 80.80% | |||||
| Yambuya Parantis (STAR) | 1,153 | 12.41% | ||||||||||||
| Ali Latip Taha (IND) | 1,130 | 5.85% | ||||||||||||
| 2018 | (UMNO) | 14,465 | 67.22%2 | Ghazali Abdul Ghani (WARISAN) | 4,987 | 23.18%2 | 22,179 | 9,478 | 77.47% | |||||
| Mustapa Datu Tambuyong (PHRS) | 2,066 | 9.60% | ||||||||||||
| 2022 | (UMNO) | 16,842 | 57.43% | Mazliwati Abdul Malek (WARISAN) | 12,512 | 42.62% | 29,882 | 4,330 | 65.56% | |||||